Decision Tree SVM Fault Diagnosis Method of Photovoltaic Diode-Clamped Three-Level Inverter

ABSTRACT

The present invention discloses a decision tree SVM fault diagnosis method of a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter in view of fault diagnosis problems of the photovoltaic three-level inverter in a photovoltaic microgrid. Taking an inverting state for example, firstly, analyzing running conditions of an inverter main circuit and performing fault classification, then taking the middle, upper and lower bridge leg voltages as measurement signals, extracting feature signals with a wavelet multiscale decomposition method, and thereby generating a decision tree SVM fault classification model with a particle swarm clustering algorithm, to finally achieve multi-mode fault diagnosis of the photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter. Advantages of the present invention are that, this algorithm can obviously distinguish various fault states of the photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter, complete the failure diagnostic task with fewer classification models And the diagnosis precision is high. The anti-interference capability is strong.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is the national phase entry of InternationalApplication No. PCT/CN2016/113645, filed on Dec. 30, 2016, which isbased upon and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No.CN201610805280.2, filed on Sep. 7, 2016, the entire contents of whichare incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field of fault diagnosis of powerelectronic devices, and more particularly to a decision tree SVM faultdiagnosis method of a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter.

BACKGROUND

The global energy crisis and environmental crisis have prompted peopleto seek cleaner, green new energy, and solar energy has drawnconsiderable attentions among the clean energies by virtue ofadvantages, such as pollution-free, sustainability, universality,flexibility and reliability. In a case that the photovoltaic system isincreasingly put into operation in the power grid, as the very core partin the photovoltaic system, the photovoltaic inverter contributes tosafe, stable and efficient operation of the whole system. Compared tothe conventional two-level inverter, the three-level inverter is widelyapplied in the photovoltaic power generation system, because theswitching device thereof has the advantages of being connected in seriesand voltage-sharing, low in switching loss, low in output voltageharmonic content, high in working efficiency and the like. However,since the number of the switching devices is increased in thethree-level inverter, the reliability of the circuit is also reducedcorrespondingly, and fault on any device may cause abnormal operation ofthe circuit, or even cause a secondary fault, resulting in enormouseconomic losses.

Fault diagnosis problems of the photovoltaic three-level inverter mainlylie in three aspects: first, in the aspect of the circuit fault mode,the open circuit fault of a single device is only taken into account,multiple-fault mode diagnosis that multiple devices fail simultaneouslyhas been discussed only until recent years, however, the research inthis aspect is still less, the problem analysis is still notcomprehensive, and the existing methods for diagnosing a fault that thetwo switching devices are open-circuited simultaneously all haverelatively complicated algorithm structures; second, detection signalsmostly are an output voltage and an output current, since there areinductive loads on the output end, the current changes slowly, and suchalways can increase the fault diagnosis time; third, in the diagnosisalgorithm aspect, an intelligent diagnosis algorithm is graduallyapplied to the fields of the inverter fault diagnosis, such asartificial neural networks, support vector machines and extreme learningmachines. Among others, neural networks are used more, but neuralnetworks have more defects in nature, such as more parameters to beconfigured, slow convergence rate and tending to trap into localoptimum, which seriously hinders application of the neural networks.

There are many switching devices for the photovoltaic three-levelinverter, the types of fault problems are complicated, and the real-timerequirement of the system should be satisfied, the conventional methodcannot satisfy practical requirements any more. Here, using thedata-driven idea, and data generated constantly during operation of theinverter system for reflecting operating mechanism and status of thesystem, together with appropriate feature extraction and analysismethods, fault diagnosis and recognition of the photovoltaic invertercan be achieved.

Wavelets analysis is a signal time-frequency domain analysis method, andsince it can describe time domains and frequency domains of the signalsimultaneously and can acquire localized signal information, waveletsanalysis has become the focus in fault feature extraction recently. Theparticle swarm clustering algorithm is obtained by generalizing theparticle swarm optimization algorithm. As a swarm intelligence-basedemerging evolutionary computing technology, the particle swarmoptimization algorithm is swarm intelligence guidance and optimizationsearch generated by cooperating and competing of individuals in theswarm and has a strong universality. The support vector machine is amachine learning algorithm based on a statistical learning theory, hasdistinct advantages in solving pattern recognition featured byhigh-dimension, nonlinearity and small-sample, and also has goodpractical values and wide application prospects in the power electronicsfault diagnosis field.

SUMMARY

One object of the present invention is to provide a decision tree SVMfault diagnosis method of a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-levelinverter.

A decision tree SVM fault diagnosis method of a photovoltaicdiode-clamped three-level inverter, including: establishing aphotovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter circuit model;extracting a three-level inverter main circuit open circuit faultfeature; constructing a particle swarm clustering fault diagnosisdecision tree; training and testing a decision tree support vectormachine SVM fault classification model, to finally achieve faultdiagnosis of the photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter.

Step One: Establish a Photovoltaic Diode-Clamped Three-Level InverterCircuit Model

The main circuit of the three-level inverter comprising A, B and Cthree-phase bridge legs, wherein each bridge leg consisting essentiallyof four main switch tubes, four free-wheel diodes and two neutral pointclamping diodes, because of the structure of the three-level invertercircuit itself, each switch tube subjects to only half of the maximumvoltage of the two-level inverter, and therefore, the three-levelinverter can greatly reduce a voltage stress of the switching device, tosatisfy high voltage inverting requirements; the main circuit faults ofthe three-level inverter are mainly open circuit faults including anIGBT open circuit, a fusing of fuses in series and trigger pulse missingfault, as well as open circuit fault of the neutral point clampingdiode, and therefore, taking A-phase of the main circuit as an example,faults are classified into three categories and thirteen subcategories,depending on actual operating conditions, comprising:

1) All the IGBT switch tubes operate normally, the inverter is free offault, and there is one subcategory in total.

2) A single device fails, that is, any of the four power tubes and twoneutral point clamping diodes fails, and there are six subcategories intotal.

3) Two devices fail, there are two cases for this category, one is that,the two failed switch tubes are not located at the same bridge leg,wherein falls into the fault of a single device on different bridgelegs, wherein the two failed switch tubes are not located at the samebridge is referred to the case that a single device fails; the other isthat, the two failed switch tubes are located at the same bridge leg,that is, any two of the four switch tubes fail, and there are sixsubcategories in total.

Step Two: Extract a Three-Level Inverter Main Circuit Open Circuit FaultFeature

Each bridge leg voltage with different faults of the three-levelinverter main circuit has different projections at each frequency bandafter decomposition, that is, the main circuit fault can have aninfluence on energy at each frequency band, generally, the faultenhances or suppresses energy at certain frequency under certainconditions, there will be a difference between fault output and a normaloutput, and therefore, taking energy at different frequency bands as thefault feature, modeling a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-levelinverter main circuit under space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM)control, after modeling, performing j-layer wavelet multiscaledecomposition on the bridge voltage when various faults occur,extracting (j+1) signal features respectively, and reconstructingwavelet multiscale decomposition coefficient, extracting energy at eachfrequency band, calculating energy of frequency band signals, let E_(n)be the energy of the n-th decomposition coefficient sequence Sn, then

$\begin{matrix}{E_{n} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{N}\; \left| X_{n} \right|^{2}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

in the formula, X_(n), n=0, 1, . . . , j are discrete point magnitudesof a reconstructed signal sequence Sn, and then a feature vector can beconstructed after obtaining energy of each bridge leg voltage, wherein,the feature vector T₁ is:

T ₁ =[E ₀ E ₁ . . . E _(j)]  (2)

Unify dimension, normalizing the feature vector to obtain:

T ₁ ′=[E ₀ /E E ₁ /E . . . E _(j) /E]  (3)

wherein, E is the total energy of the signal, each element in T₁′corresponds to energy percentage in each frequency band, processing theupper and lower bridge legs with the same method again to obtain featurevectors T₂′ and T₃′ respectively, define the fault feature as:

T=[T ₁ ′ T ₂ ′ T ₃′]  (4)

Extracting features of the bridge leg voltage under various faultsfollowing the processes described above, and finally constructing a datasample.

Step Three: Construct a Particle Swarm Clustering Fault DiagnosisDecision Tree

There are thirteen fault subcategories in total for the three-levelinverter, a particle swarm clustering algorithm to constantly classifyfaults into two categories is needed under the condition that a decisiontree is to be constructed to completely distinguish the faults; whereinthe particle swarm clustering algorithm comprising initializing theparticle swarm clustering algorithm first, randomly initializing theparticle swarm, setting parameters such as the number of clusters, thenumber of particles, and the number of iterations, and then randomlyclassifying each sample, and after classifying as the initialclustering, calculating parameters, such as a clustering center and anadaptability, setting the initial velocity of the particle zero; in thisway, updating a velocities and positions of all the particles accordingto a particle individual optimal position p_(id) and a globally optimalposition p_(gd) obtained from the initial particle swarm with formulasas follows:

$\begin{matrix}{\omega = {\omega_{\max} - {\frac{iter}{itermax}\left( {\omega_{\max} - \omega_{\min}} \right)}}} & (5) \\{c_{1} = {R_{1} + {\frac{iter}{itermax}R_{2}}}} & (6) \\{c_{2} = {R_{3} - {\frac{iter}{itermax}R_{4}}}} & (7) \\{{v_{id}\left( {t + 1} \right)} = {{\omega \; {v_{id}(t)}} + {c_{1}{r_{1}\left( {p_{id} - {x_{id}(t)}} \right)}} + {c_{2}{r_{2}\left( {p_{gd} - {x_{id}(t)}} \right)}}}} & (8) \\{{x_{id}\left( {t + 1} \right)} = {{x_{id}(t)} + {v_{id}\left( {t + 1} \right)}}} & (9)\end{matrix}$

wherein, ω is a inertia weight; ν_(id) is a velocity of the particle; c₁and c₂ are acceleration factors; r₁ and r₂ are random numbersdistributed between [0,1]; R₁=1; R₂=0.5; R₃=4; R₄=2; ω_(max)=1.2;ω_(min)=0.4; iter is the current number of iterations; itermax ismaximum number of iterations; determining clustering partition of eachsample according to clustering center coding of the particles and thenearest neighbor rule, and then calculating a new clustering centeraccording to the new clustering partition, updating the adaptability,and comparing the adaptability again, update the p_(id) under thecondition that the adaptability is better than the individual optimalposition; updating the under the condition that the adaptability isupdating the p_(gd) under the condition that the adaptability is betterthan the globally optimal position p_(gd), ending the algorithm underthe condition that the maximum number of iterations is reached,otherwise, continuing the iteration.

To generate the decision tree structure, it is necessary to take all thetraining sample sets as initial nodes first, classify the initial nodeinto two categories to form two sub-nodes with the particle swarmclustering algorithm, judge whether the sub-node comprises only one typeof fault sample, wherein under the condition of the sub-node comprisesonly one type of fault sample, ending the algorithm, otherwise, continueto process with the particle swarm clustering algorithm, to classifyinto two new sub-nodes, and then classify constantly until all thesub-nodes comprise only one type of fault sample, and the algorithmends, in this way, clustering classification is performed on all thefault samples, and a fault diagnosis decision tree is constructedreversely.

Step Four: Train and Test a Decision Tree Support Vector Machine SVMFault Classification Model

classifying the fault data samples into training sets and testing setsin a proportion of 4:1, the training set trains classification models ofa support vector machine SVM according to the fault distribution on thedecision tree structure; the classification models of the support vectormachine SVM all adopt a radial basis kernel function and optimizeparameters of the support vector machine SVM, respectively, aftertraining is completed, testing sets are used to test fault diagnosismodels of the decision tree support vector machine SVM to obtain indexescomprising diagnosis precision, and finally achieve fault diagnosis ofthe photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter.

The beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows:

1) the decision tree SVM fault diagnosis method of a diode-clampedthree-level inverter is based on a data-driven idea, the core is firstto cluster then classify, and combine wavelet multiscale decompositionalgorithm, particle swarm clustering algorithm and support vectormachine algorithm, to achieve a real-time data fault of the photovoltaicdiode-clamped three-level inverter.

2) In the present invention, a particle swarm clustering algorithm isadopted to perform clustering classification on data samples of adiode-clamped three-level inverter, until each subcategory contains onlyone type of fault information, and then reversely construct the decisiontree, so that divisibility among various sub-categories can be as strongas possible, not only improving diagnosis precision but also enhancingthe anti-interference capability.

3) The present invention adopts a decision tree fault diagnosis modelstructure, and the number of classification models to be constructed isfew, so that the fault diagnosis efficiency can be improved greatly. Thepresent invention takes the radial basis as a kernel function tooptimize various parameters, so that fault diagnosis of the three-levelinverter can be achieved effectively.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a fault diagnosis flow of a diode-clamped three-levelinverter;

FIG. 2 shows a main circuit topological structure of a diode-clampedthree-level inverter;

FIG. 3 shows an A-phase topology of an inverter main circuit;

FIG. 4 shows a bridge leg voltage when a single device fails;

FIG. 5 shows a bridge leg voltage when two devices are open-circuitedsimultaneously;

FIG. 6 is a fault feature vector histogram when the inverter is normal;

FIG. 7 is a structural diagram of a decision tree after clusteringclassification.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to theaccompanying drawings.

The decision tree SVM fault diagnosis flowchart of the diode-clampedthree-level inverter according to the present invention is as shown inFIG. 1, and the specific method embodiments of the present inventioninclude steps as follows:

Refer to FIG. 2, a main circuit topological structural diagram of adiode-clamped three-level inverter is shown, and in order to simplifythe analysis, only the working state of A-phase in the inverting stateof the inverter is studied, and the circuit topology of the inverter isshown in FIG. 3. There are three working states for A-phase bridge leg:

P state: S_(a1) and S_(a2) are turned on, S_(a3) and S_(a4) are turnedoff, if the direction of the current is positive, the current flows fromP point into A point via S_(a1) and S_(a2), the potential at A point ofthe output end is equal to the potential at P point after ignoring aforward conduction voltage drop of the switching device, namely,U_(dc)/2; if the direction of the current is negative, the current flowsfrom A point into P point via free-wheel diodes VD_(a1) and VD_(a2), thepotential at A point of the output end is still equal to the potentialat P point.

O state: S_(a2) and S_(a3) are turned on, S_(a1) and S_(a4) are turnedoff, if the direction of the current is positive, the current flows fromthe neutral point O into A point via VD_(a5) and S_(a2), the potentialat A point of the output end is equal to the potential at O point, i.e.,the neutral point potential; if the direction of the current isnegative, the current flows from A point into O point via free-wheeldiodes S_(a3) and VD_(a6), the potential at A point of the output end isstill equal to the potential at O point.

N state: S_(a3) and S_(a4) are turned on, S_(a1) and S_(a2) are turnedoff, if the direction of the current is positive, the current flows fromN point into A point via VD_(a3) and VD_(a4), the potential at A pointof the output end is equal to the potential at N point, namely,−U_(dc)/2; if the direction of the current is negative, the currentflows from A point into N point via S_(a3) and S_(a4), the potential atA point of the output end is still equal to the potential at N point.

Based on the topological structure, faults can be classified into threecategories and thirteen subcategories, that is, the fault types of thediode-clamped three-level inverter.

1) All the IGBT switch tubes operate normally, the inverter is free offault, and there is one subcategory in total.

2) A single device fails, that is, any of the power tubes S_(a1),S_(a2), S_(a3), S_(a4) and clamping diodes VD_(a5), VD_(a6) fails, andthere are six subcategories in total.

3) Two devices fail, there are two subcategories for this category, oneis that, the two failed switch tubes are not located at the same bridgeleg, and such can be referred to the case that a single device failswithout taking into account the fault classification; the other is that,the two failed switch tubes are located at the same bridge leg, that is,any group of the power tubes (S_(a1), S_(a2)), (S_(a1), S_(a3)),(S_(a1), S_(a4)), (S_(a2), S_(a3)), (S_(a2), S_(a4)) or (S_(a3), S_(a4))fail, and there are six subcategories in total;

Establish a three-phase three-level SVPWM inverter model, and select abridge leg voltage as a research object, to obtain a bridge leg voltagemodel in a case of various faults, as shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5.Considering features of the output voltage, select a sym4 wavelet basisfunction to perform a three-layer multiscale decomposition on themiddle, upper and lower bridge leg voltages, respectively, each bridgeleg voltage is decomposed into four small signals, calculate energy ofthe signal after reconstruction, and normalize the fault feature vectorof each bridge leg after unifying dimension. Integrate fault featurevectors of bridge legs, and construct fault feature vectors of thesystem in a middle-upper-lower sequence, and construct data samplesaccording to different fault types. In particular, when the inverteroperates normally, the corresponding fault feature vector histogram isas shown in FIG. 6.

Perform clustering classification on all the obtained fault samples withthe particle swarm clustering algorithm, judge the resultingsubcategory, if the subcategory contains only one type of fault samples,then stop classifying, otherwise, continue to perform clusteringclassification until all the subcategories contain only one type offault information. After the classification is complete, construct thedecision tree reversely, and the structure of the fault diagnosisdecision tree finally constructed is as shown in FIG. 7. As can be seenin the figure, only 12 classification models need to be constructed for13 fault problems, however, it is necessary for SVM with a one-to-onestructure to construct N(N−1)/2 classification models, i.e., 78classification models, undoubtedly, adopting the decision tree structurewill greatly reduce the number of models to be constructed and improvethe operational efficiency.

Classify data samples into training sets and testing sets. Based on theconstructed decision tree structure, train classification models of 12support vector machines, i.e., SVM1 to SVM12, with a radial basis kernelfunction, respectively, and optimize parameters of each support vectormachine. In order to verify the anti-interference capability of thealgorithm, add white noise with 10% and 15% signal amplitudes into theoriginal data for comparison, and meanwhile, transversely comparediagnosis precision of the BP Neural Network (BPNN), the Support VectorMachine (SVM) with a one-to-one structure and a Decision Tree SupportVector Machine (DT-SVM), and the final fault diagnosis results aresummarized in Table 1. As seen from the table, as the noise increases,the diagnosis precision of each algorithm is reduced to a certainextent, but decrease in the diagnosis precision of the decision treesupport vector machine algorithm is relatively low, so theanti-interference capability is high.

TABLE 1 Fault Diagnosis Result 10% White Noise 15% White Noise BPNN96.92% 92.31% SVM 97.69% 93.85% DT-SVM 98.46% 96.15%

The embodiments described above are merely examples for clearlyillustrating the present invention, and in no way should be construed tolimit the embodiments of the present invention. Persons skilled in theart should appreciate that various other variations and modificationscan be made on the basis of the above description.

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A decision tree SVM fault diagnosis method of aphotovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter, comprising:establishing a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter circuitmodel; extracting a three-level inverter main circuit open circuit faultfeature; constructing a particle swarm clustering fault diagnosisdecision tree; training and testing a decision tree support vectormachine SVM fault classification model, to finally achieve faultdiagnosis of the photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter; stepone: establishing a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level invertercircuit model; the main circuit of the three-level inverter mainlycomprising A, B and C three-phase bridge legs, wherein each bridge legconsisting essentially of four main switch tubes, four free-wheel diodesand two neutral point clamping diodes; because of the structure of thethree-level inverter circuit itself, each switch tube subjects to onlyhalf of the maximum voltage of the two-level inverter, and therefore,the three-level inverter greatly reduces a voltage stress of theswitching device to satisfy high voltage inverting requirements; themain circuit faults of the three-level inverter are mainly open circuitfaults comprising an IGBT open circuit, a fusing of fuses in series andtrigger pulse missing fault, and an open circuit fault of the neutralpoint clamping diode, and therefore, taking A-phase of the main circuitas an example, faults are classified into three categories and thirteensubcategories, depending on actual operating conditions, comprising; 1)all the IGBT switch tubes operate normally, the inverter is free offault, wherein there is one subcategory in total; 2) a single devicefails, wherein any of the four power tubes and two neutral pointclamping diodes fails, wherein and there are six subcategories in total;3) two devices fail, wherein there are two cases for this category,first, the two failed switch tubes are not located at the same bridgeleg, wherein falls into the fault of a single device on different bridgelegs, wherein the two failed switch tubes are not located at the samebridge is referred to the case that a single device fails; second, thetwo failed switch tubes are located at the same bridge leg, wherein anytwo of the four switch tubes fail, and there are six subcategories intotal; step two: extracting a three-level inverter main circuit opencircuit fault feature; each bridge leg voltage with different faults ofthe three-level inverter main circuit has different projections at eachfrequency band after decomposition, wherein the main circuit fault hasan influence on energy at each frequency band, wherein the faultenhances or suppresses energy at certain frequency under certainconditions, wherein there is a difference between fault output and anormal output, and therefore, taking energy at different frequency bandsas the fault feature, modeling a photovoltaic diode-clamped three-levelinverter main circuit under space vector pulse width modulation SVPWMcontrol, after modeling, performing j-layer wavelet multiscaledecomposition on the bridge voltage when various faults occur,extracting (j+1) signal features respectively, and reconstructingwavelet multiscale decomposition coefficient, extracting energy at eachfrequency band, calculating energy of frequency band signals, let E_(n)be the energy of the n-th decomposition coefficient sequence Sn, then$\begin{matrix}{E_{n} = {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{N}\; \left| X_{n} \right|^{2}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$ in the formula, X_(n), n=0, 1, . . . , j are discretepoint magnitudes of a reconstructed signal sequence S_(n), and then afeature vector is constructed after obtaining energy of each bridge legvoltage, wherein, the feature vector T₁ is:T ₁ =[E ₀ E ₁ . . . E _(j)]  (2) further unify dimension, normalizingthe feature vector to obtain:T ₁ ′=[E ₀ /E E ₁ /E . . . E _(j) /E]  (3) wherein, E is the totalenergy of the signal, each element in corresponds to energy percentagein each frequency band, processing the upper and lower bridge legs withthe same method again to obtain feature vectors T₂′ and T₃′respectively, define the fault feature as:T=[T ₁ ′ T ₂ ′ T ₃′]  (4) extracting features of the bridge leg voltageunder various faults following the processes described above, andfinally constructing a data sample; step three: constructing a particleswarm clustering fault diagnosis decision tree; since there are thirteenfault subcategories in total for the three-level inverter, a particleswarm clustering algorithm to constantly classify faults into twocategories is needed under the condition that a decision tree is to beconstructed to completely distinguish the faults, wherein the particleswarm clustering algorithm comprising initializing the particle swarmclustering algorithm first, randomly initializing the particle swarm,setting parameters comprising a number of clusters, a number ofparticles, and a number of iterations, and then randomly classifyingeach sample, and after classifying as the initial clustering,calculating parameters comprising a clustering center and anadaptability, setting the initial velocity of the particle zero; in thisway, updating a velocities and positions of all the particles accordingto a particle individual optimal position p_(id) and a globally optimalposition p_(gd) obtained from the initial particle swarm with formulasas follows: $\begin{matrix}{\omega = {\omega_{\max} - {\frac{iter}{itermax}\left( {\omega_{\max} - \omega_{\min}} \right)}}} & (5) \\{c_{1} = {R_{1} + {\frac{iter}{itermax}R_{2}}}} & (6) \\{c_{2} = {R_{3} - {\frac{iter}{itermax}R_{4}}}} & (7) \\{{v_{id}\left( {t + 1} \right)} = {{\omega \; {v_{id}(t)}} + {c_{1}{r_{1}\left( {p_{id} - {x_{id}(t)}} \right)}} + {c_{2}{r_{2}\left( {p_{gd} - {x_{id}(t)}} \right)}}}} & (8) \\{{x_{id}\left( {t + 1} \right)} = {{x_{id}(t)} + {v_{id}\left( {t + 1} \right)}}} & (9)\end{matrix}$ wherein, ω is a inertia weight; ν_(id) is a velocity ofthe particle; c₁ and c₂ are acceleration factors; r₁ and r₂ are randomnumbers distributed between [0,1]; wherein R₁=1; R₂=0.5; R₃=4; R₄=2;ω_(max)=1.2; ω_(min)=0.4; wherein iter is the current number ofiterations; wherein itermax is maximum number of iterations; determiningclustering partition of each sample according to clustering centercoding of the particles and the nearest neighbor rule, and thencalculating a new clustering center according to the new clusteringpartition, updating the adaptability, and comparing the adaptabilityagain, update the p_(id) under the condition that the adaptability isbetter than the individual optimal position p_(id); updating the p_(gd)under the condition that the adaptability is better than the globallyoptimal position p_(gd), ending the algorithm under the condition thatthe maximum number of iterations is reached, otherwise, continuing theiteration; to generate the decision tree structure, it is necessary totake all the training sample sets as initial nodes first, classify theinitial node into two categories to form two sub-nodes with the particleswarm clustering algorithm, judge whether the sub-node comprises onlyone type of fault sample, wherein under the condition of the sub-nodecomprises only one type of fault sample, ending the algorithm,otherwise, continue to process with the particle swarm clusteringalgorithm, to classify into two new sub-nodes, and then classifyconstantly until all the sub-nodes comprise only one type of faultsample, and the algorithm ends wherein clustering classification isperformed on all the fault samples, and a fault diagnosis decision treeis constructed reversely; step four: training and testing a decisiontree support vector machine SVM fault classification model; classifyingthe fault data samples into training sets and testing sets in aproportion of 4:1, wherein the training set trains classification modelsof a support vector machine SVM according to the fault distribution onthe decision tree structure; the classification models of the supportvector machine SVM all adopt a radial basis kernel function and optimizeparameters of the support vector machine SVM, respectively, whereinafter training is completed, testing sets are used to test faultdiagnosis models of the decision tree support vector machine SVM toobtain indexes comprising diagnosis precision, and finally achieve faultdiagnosis of the photovoltaic diode-clamped three-level inverter.